Recent content by toddyjoe

Assuming you are talking a full calibration or at least a playback calibration, your existing recordings will sound different. Probably impossible to say if it will be better or worse as you have no idea how far off the calibration was during recording. Are the three songs you have recorded so...

I have an old Mac Performa in my basement running a Sonnet G3 400 MHz accelerator card and the last version of Opcode Studio Vision Pro I found for free on the Internet (maybe 4.5 or something like that?). One of the three different Mac OS I can pick from on different drives is OS 8.6. My old...

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For sale: One Yamaha VSS-30 keyboard sampler.This is the now-coveted sampler from the late 1980's which commands silly money on Ebay because of its easy sample manipulation and use by artists like Sigur Ros. It is also a popular board for circuit benders and those wishing to add inexpensive MIDI...

I have used computer software and mobile-phone software to generate tones before for double-checking tape decks but it is a bit of a headache. It worked best with a computer with decent software and a high-quality DA converter and I ended up having no trust in the phone-app tests. In either...

I think both of you have have hit the nail on the head regarding the problem with most Internet discussions about the 3:1 rule -- most fail to emphasize the part about multiple sources versus a single source. As pointed out, the picture above stating "The 3:1 rule of thumb doesn't apply to this...

I went through a stage of trying to warm up synth-based music with an analog tape deck and will throw out another cheaper and maybe workable option for you: find a cheap but working 1/4" consumer stereo reel to reel. Most of these units play 7" reels and have two heads, one head sharing...

Do you mean you re-soldered the input XLRs to change them from pin 3 being hot like a standard Otari to pin 2 being hot like modern wiring on other equipment? If so, you have to do the same to the output XLRs. Changing which pin is hot (2 or 3) reverses phase so if you reverse phase at the input...

I would double-check your oscilloscope connections and settings before turning another screw. It is unusual that you would be able to adjust a two-track deck to be perfectly 180 degrees out of phase, so it sounds like something else is amiss. Given this is an Otari with the unusual pin-3 XLR...

Your plan will not work for two main reasons. For one, because you recorded channel 1 and channel 4 in two different passes and in opposite directions, the odds are 359 out of 360 that the two tracks will be out of phase even if they use the same 15 kHz tone. Phase and frequency are two...

I guess I misunderstood given your original post above said you were looking for opinions on routing to and from a Motu 2408 or 24 input system. I gather you are not in a position to try the desks with some familiar equipment, which is what I would usually recommend or do if it were my money, so...

Dude, this is the fourth thread you started in as many days looking to compare specific Soundcraft and Amek mixers. I think the lack of answers is attributable to the breadth of your questions, as you basically want someone to say one is better in all respects than another. That is rarely if...

The calibration tape I use for my Fostex R8 was an MRL tape I bought new from Full Compass online. The selling price at Full Compass was cheaper than some of the other MRL dealers I found. MRL tapes have full-width tones so you do not need to find one specific for an 8-track versus a 4-track or...

Don't forget that you are not going to get the contributing sound of the speaker(s) and speaker cabinet(s) when you go through a direct box unless you also add some form of speaker and/or cab simulator. Depending on how much you push your amp, speaker breakup can be a huge part of what you like...

Yes, be careful of hype and misinformation. :) You need to identify why you want to send masters to a reel to reel to get any meaningful advice. There are so many reasons to pick one reel-to-reel over another -- clean sound vs. colored sound, workflow issues, reliability and service/parts...